Show LAND OF THE YEAR the records of the surveyor generals genera as office show an encouraging increase in mining operations for the past year orders for min mineral locations for 1901 totaling as against for the year previous which later figure wasta wasa good showing at the time A large force has been kept busy on both agricultural and mineral business and considerable work in arrears has been attended to the only change in the personnel of the office for the year was the installation of the present sur beyor general on april in place of hon jacob B blair who died on february several new commissions have been issued to deputy mineral surveyors of whom there are now sixty an increase of four over last year it is now generally conceded by all who have business with ane office that its motto is to please and accommodate the public and that the work is done well and expeditiously A new feature is the obtaining of several hundred dollars worth of new first class drafting and other instruments by which the clerks who have heretofore furnished their own instruments st are enabled to do better work with greater facility the staff of the office as now composed is as follows edward H anderson surveyor general edward B linnen chief clerk henry R M atkinson william S hedges 2 james L peck eugene T hills allison G andrews Andrey vs joseph Hersch william T olmstead leopold L joseph L stevenson william C jennings herbert T hills mrs kate F burton miss clara hawkins mrs esmerelda lasher miss zelma brown H 11 lewis T cannon susie hull and mary wightman it is a fact not generally understood that large tracts of land nearly one half of the area in utah are still the total number of acres surveyed and approved up to december 1901 is during the year 1901 surveys have been approved covering an area of acres located as follows COUNTIES ACRES cache 66 carbon emery rich san pete salt lake uintah utah total mineral surveys approved during the year 1901 giving the number of lode placer and mill site locations lodes placers mill sites M W rn 0 0 0 0 0 DISTRICTS ff 0 0 0 n 0 fa 1 S sa 1 1 l CD B 5 CO 5 0 5 0 0 sa W 0 m CO argenta 1 7 box elder unorganized 12 27 boulter 1 4 big cottonwood 4 11 blue ledge 3 3 beaver lake 4 4 carbonate 2 2 1 1 clifton 2 7 camp floyd 2 8 columbia 3 3 dugway 2 4 detroit i I 1 I 1 elkhorn El hhorn 1 11 gold mountain 5 15 1 vi 2 little cottonwood 1 2 mt nebo I 1 I 1 north tintic gintic I 1 4 11 newfoundland 1 3 ophir 1 4 18 ohio 3 3 pinto iron 1 I 23 41 preuss 1 9 1 1 rush valley 1 2 state line 4 16 san francisco 4 12 snake creek 1 2 spring creek 1 8 star 4 4 I 1 tintic gintic 48 93 1 7 7 thoele tooele To oele unorganized 3 14 uintah 5 7 unorganized 4 6 west mountain 72 82 willard 2 6 1 2 61 1 total T 2 3 9 10 orders for mineral mineral surveys issued during the year 1901 giving the number of lode placer and mill site locations lodes placers mill sites M ti 0 0 M 5 0 1 DISTRICTS 4 0 r 4 V 0 cb I 1 M argenta 1 7 beaver lake 4 5 big cottonwood cotton wood J 15 47 box elder unorganized 28 66 camp floyd i 1 1 detroit 1 4 elkhorn 1 12 gold mountain 10 38 1 2 hot springs I 1 3 3 henry 1 17 1 1 little li cottonwood 4 15 north tintic gintic 3 10 ohio 2 5 ophir 3 17 pinto iron 13 18 rush valley 2 4 san francisco 14 50 snake creek 25 42 state line 1 2 7 star 5 5 tintic gintic 45 94 uintah 33 48 unorganized 8 25 west mountain 36 54 willard I 1 3 1 total 3 3 2 3 |